सर्वस्यैव हि सर्वस्य साधोरपि विवेकिनः । निमित्तपूर्वं वैराग्यं जायते राम राजसम् ॥ २१ ॥
sarvasyaiva hi sarvasya sādhōrapi vivēkinaḥ | nimittapūrvaṁ vairāgyaṁ jāyatē rāma rājasam || 21 ||
Translation
For with everyone, truly everyone, even a good and discerning person, dispassion arises from some occasion, Rāma, and is of the nature of passion (rajas).
Word by word
- sarvasya
- with everyone
- ēva
- truly
- hi
- for
- sādhōr
- (sādhoḥ) a good
- api
- even
- vivēkinaḥ
- discerning person
- nimitta
- an occasion
- pūrvaṁ
- arises from
- vairāgyaṁ
- dispassion
- jāyatē
- arises
- rāma
- Rāma
- rājasam
- of the nature of passion
Meaning
The tradition's analysis of the three qualities is applied here to dispassion itself. Dispassion that comes after a blow is rājasa, says the commentary, because it comes of the experience of sorrow, which is the effect of rajas. This is a subtle and useful distinction. Turning from the world in pain may be sincere, and yet it is still a reaction, and it may pass when the pain passes. Nothing in the verse despises it: it is said of the good and discerning too.